Scientist Immunology

The Client

Northreach Recruitment are working exclusively with an exciting hyper-growth T-Cell therapy company based in London.

The company are a start-up organisation with series B funding, being led by prominent experts within the Immunological field.

Their main focus is on engineering T-Cells to prevent organ rejection following transplantation and to create therapies targeted at autoimmune diseases.

The Role - Scientist R&D

In this role, you will contribute to assay development and characterisation of CAR-Treg products.

This means you will be comfortable designing, developing and executing research on well-defined projects and assignments with minimal supervision.

You will be providing technical leadership to complete research projects.

Main Responsibilities:

• Contributes to the development of novel in vitro and molecular biology assays to be implemented in the Clinical trial Immunomonitoring plan
• Contributes to the processing and data generation for the Clinical trial IM plan
• Understands project goals and executes well-defined scientific projects from evaluating data etc
• Completes high-quality scientific projects requiring minimal supervision
• Plans assignments for a research group/project, troubleshoots complex problems
• Coordinates research activities in the context of a larger group
• Participates constructively and presents data in working teams and at lab meetings
• Drafts well-organised documents (SOPs) and reports and draws relevant inferences from appropriate scientific literature
• Provides scientific guidance and training to more junior staff
• Complies with standard lab practices and company policies

Experience were looking for:

• Cellular Immunology
• Flow Cytometry
• Clinical trial experience
• T cell characterization
• Experience of translational workstreams in biotech
• Strong laboratory skills and substantial knowledge of state-of-the-art principles and theories
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work independently and complete research projects under supervision with moderate input
• Experience with and application of relevant scientific, approaches and techniques

Personal Qualities/Qualifications required:

• PhD or MD/ PhD in relevant scientific discipline